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Police stories for June 4

By Harold Oakes

Posted:
06/04/2013 12:57:33 PM MDT

One and done

Ruidoso Patrol Officer Steve Minner responded to the 200 block of Hemlock Drive May 18 for a welfare check on property. The owner of the property said he had a fight with his girlfriend earlier and he wanted to make sure she was not at his house and wanted to know if she had done any damage to his property.

Minner found damage to the man's truck and house. The truck had an estimated $7,044.55 in damage, from broken lights and dents all over the truck, and the house had $227.02 in damage.

Magistrate Judge Lorena LaMay signed an arrest warrant for Rebecca Boyd, 32, for criminal damage to property of a household member of more than $1,000 and battery against a household member.

The victim told Minner that he had been at Boyd's house earlier. She had taken his phone while he was out of the room and found some text messages from another girl he had also been seeing. Boyd became angry and threw the cell phone, striking him in the face. She then began scratching and punching him, according to the victim. He also lost his glasses during the fight. He later also reported that he had been bitten by Boyd during the fight.

When the victim was finally able to get away from Boyd, he said he got in his truck and left. He said he was not comfortable driving around without his glasses, but was able to drive to his house.

A few minutes after he arrived at his house he said he heard a vehicle pull into the driveway and said Boyd was standing outside yelling at him. He locked the doors so she could not get in.

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He said she began hitting the door and she said if she couldn't get in the door she would come in through a window. He said he sneaked out the back and went to a friend's house.

Minner went with the victim to Boyd's house to retrieve his things, which were at the end of the driveway. The victim showed Minner a text message from Boyd to him saying, "the bat is in the car." Minner looked in Boyd's car, which was parked in the driveway, and saw a silver bat in the passenger floorboard. He took a picture of the bat in the car.

Minner was unable to contact Boyd and reported she was probably trying to avoid him since her car was there at her house but she would not answer the door.

Minner talked to Boyd on the phone the following day and she reportedly admitted throwing the phone and hitting the victim. She said she found out he was cheating on her and threw him out of the house. Minner reported he wanted to talk to Boyd in person, which he did on May 23.

During that interview, Boyd said after she threw the phone at the victim, she went to slap him and he grabbed her hand and pushed her to the ground. He then allegedly sat on her and put his forearm in her throat and told her she had no business going through his phone. She said he got up and walked in the kitchen, where she had a handgun in a case. She said the victim had told her he once pulled a gun on his ex-wife, so she said she got scared and jumped on his back to prevent him from getting the pistol. She said he then rammed her against the wall to get her off his back. When she fell off his back, the victim said the victim grabbed the pistol and his truck keys and left.

Minner asked Boyd why she had not reported the incident. She said she was afraid of the victim and his girlfriend. Boyd said she had sent the victim a text message telling him to come and get his things, but had deleted the messages from her phone.

When Minner asked her about going over to the victim's house she stopped answering questions without a lawyer being present.

According to Boyd's statement to Minner, she and the victim had gotten together the evening of the fight to celebrate their one-year anniversary of being together.

Not business hours

Ruidoso Patrol Officer Curtis Rodgers responded to a business in the 600 block of Sudderth Drive May 24 for a report of a damaged window.

Rodgers reported the front window of the business was damaged by what appeared to be someone kicking it in an attempt to get into the building. They were not able to enter the building.

Damage was estimated at $500.

Stick to it

Rodgers responded to the 200 block of Lookout Drive May 29 for a report of a broken window.

The manager reported someone had broken a window in an apartment by throwing a stick through it. The window was valued at $200.

Diaper dandy

Ruidoso Patrol Officer Christopher Bryant responded to Fire Station No. 1 on Sudderth Drive at 2:18 a.m. May 30 for a report of a man inside one of the fire trucks.

Bryant found John Guerin, 65, of Las Cruces, N.M., inside the truck and told him to get out of the truck. He told Bryant he couldn't get out because he was "naked." Bryant asked why he was naked and Guerin said because he had defecated all over himself, his clothes and the inside of the truck. He said he was saving his own life by doing this.

Bryant reported Guerin did not seem to know what he had done or what he was doing. Bryant reported Guerin did not seem to know where he was.

Guerin had ripped the front of the headliner off the top of the interior of the fire truck and ripped Styrofoam from the roof of the truck. There also were wires hanging from the roof where firemen said there used to be a box. Damage to the fire truck was estimated at $4,500.

Bryant learned security from the Inn of the Mountain Gods Casino Apache had him removed from the casino earlier because they believed he was on some unknown drug. Guerin was transported from Mescalero to Lincoln County Medical Center, where he was treated and released at about 7 p.m. with prescriptions and adult diapers.

Bryant reported Guerin apparently wandered around Ruidoso not knowing where he was or where to go to call his son in Las Cruces to pick him up until he wandered to the fire station and got in the fire truck.

Guerin was transported back to LCMC and was then transported to a psychiatric facility for further evaluation.

Deputy District Attorney John Sugg approved charging Guerin with felony criminal damage to property and a summons was issued for Guerin to appear in Magistrate Court.

Declined

Ruidoso Patrol Officer Neal Cox responded to the 700 block of Mechem Drive May 30 for a report of a gas skip.

The clerk reported a woman came in the store and gave her Visa card for gas and went out and pumped her gas. When the clerk went to run the card it was declined. The woman gave the clerk seven dollars in quarters and a five-dollar bill and said she would run home and get some more money. Three hours later the woman had not returned and the clerk called the police.